The Market Report

CTown Supermarkets Opening:  TBA Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Rite Aid Cooperative:  Krasdale Foods Location:  7808 Flatlands Ave, Canarsie, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: September 6, 2024 Welcome to Canarsie! The southeastern Brooklyn neighborhood abuts the Jamaica Bay at the southern tip, but here on the northern end, Flatlands Avenue is the main thoroughfare. A CTown Supermarket has long been located at Flatlands and East 80th Street , but that store was switched to Bravo -- a different brand within the same cooperative, Krasdale Foods -- as a store one block over at East 79th Street is preparing to open as a CTown . The former Rite Aid that CTown is moving into is just 11,000 square feet, but their existing location is even smaller at just 5300 square feet. Because of the brand change, I think it's likely the existing location will continue operating even after the new CTown opens. There are a few small grocers along Flatlands, including two at Flatlands and 81st, along wit

Lincoln Market Opened: August 3, 2024 Owner:  Khalid Innab Previous Tenants:  Duane Reade Cooperative:  ASG Location:  501 6th Ave, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  September 4, 2024 Lincoln Market isn't exactly a household name, but the independent New York City chain has been growing very quickly since first opening on Lincoln Place in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in 2016. Today, there are seven Lincoln Markets in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. This location replaces a Rite Aid that closed in 2021. Inside, the store is small and compact but not tiny, and absolutely full of merchandise. Like much of lower Manhattan, there are lots of smaller grocers but relatively few supermarkets, and it seems like this store is filling that need. Lincoln Market stores tend to lean upscale, which is what the rather affluent Greenwich Village is likely looking for. We enter to a substantial produce department in the front-right corner of the store. Refrigerated produce lines both s

Wegmans Opening: TBA Owner:  Wegman family Previous Tenants:  Bed Bath & Beyond Cooperative:  none Location:  1932 Broadway, Lincoln Square, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  September 11, 2024 Wegmans made waves when the upstate-favorite chain opened their first New York City location back in 2019 , followed by a Manhattan location in a former Kmart at Astor Place last year. Now, Wegmans is on track to bring a third location to the city on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. At 58,000 square feet , it'll be one of the smaller Wegmans but one of the largest supermarkets in Manhattan. It's a former Bed Bath & Beyond in a very high-profile location -- directly across the street from Lincoln Center . Signage has appeared in the windows of the street-level floor, although I'm not positive exactly where the entrance and exit will be. The door seen here appears to be the door to the residential floors above, not the ground floor commercial space. There's no projected openi

Price Chopper Opened: ca. late 1990s Owner:  Northeast Grocery Previous Tenants:  McCracken Markets > Iandoli Super Markets Cooperative:  none Location:  223 Park Ave, Main Middle, Worcester, MA Photographed:  November 4, 2018; January 25, 2019; September 15, 2019; and September 3, 2021 It's time for our fourth (and final) Worcester Price Chopper! (See the Worcester Fair , Sunderland , and Main & Cambridge locations.) We're at the corner of Park and Highland, a few blocks from Worcester Polytechnic Institute's campus, just north of Elm Park and east of a large high school. This store is rather small for a Price Chopper, at just 36,000 square feet. It also appears that the supermarket originally here, a McCracken Markets built around 1960, was much smaller at only about 18,000 square feet. I don't know much about McCracken, the original supermarket here, other than that they were bought by  Iandoli in 1968 . Worcester's 1969 city directory still lists McCrac